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harness
Self-hosted Git hosting with CI pipelines, Gitspaces and artifact registries
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- Stars
- 38.9k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Last release
- Apr 2026
- Language
- Go
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Overview
Harness Open Source is a Go server that combines Git repository hosting, Docker-based CI pipelines, hosted development environments (Gitspaces) and artifact registries behind one web UI and REST API. It is the successor to Drone, though pipeline parity with Drone is not yet reached. It has no AI features; it fits this list only as a self-hosted platform for building and shipping apps.
Who it is for: Teams self-hosting Git, CI and artifact storage, e.g. Drone users
Strengths
- Code hosting, pipelines, Gitspaces and registries in one server
- Starts with a single docker run on port 3000
- Swagger spec served at /swagger, plus a CLI for creating tokens
- Builds and runs on any OS and architecture Go supports
Weaknesses
- Pipeline features not yet at parity with Drone, which lives on a separate branch
- Pipelines need access to the host Docker socket
- Default admin login is admin/changeit and must be changed
- Contains no AI features; the README describes only DevOps tooling
What it needs
- no GPU
- Docker
- Needs Docker
- port 3000
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